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THE government says the country has recorded significant growth in locally manufactured products, a development that is expected to result in reduced imports. Speaking during a stakeholders meeting over the weekend, the minister of Industry, Mangaliso Ndlovu said the government was pushing to transform the manufacturing sector. “The country has increased production and manufacturing of…

THE ruling Zanu PF says it is regrettable that its detractors have poured “lots of money” over the years into needless campaigns to discredit and create false narratives of instability within the former liberation movement. So says the party’s director of Information, Farai Marapira, who also told independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs…

BY NYASHA KUNYISWA HEALTH minister Douglas Mombeshora says the government is currently in the process of testing Mpox clades with assistance from South Africa. A clade, also known as a monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that includes a single ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades represent unbroken lines of evolutionary descent. This…

BY MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE THE police have named and shamed 32 drug barons who were convicted for selling and also illegally possessing drugs across the country. In a statement yesterday, police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi said some of the suspects were made to pay fines by the courts while others were serving prison sentences. “The Zimbabwe…

By Rutendo Ngara THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) says it is setting up a new resident magistrates’ court in Wedza, Mashonaland East province in an effort to decentralise the justice system. This comes as the Commission recently commissioned a court in Triangle and Chiredzi, Masvingo prov – ince. This was revealed by the Commission’s secretary…

BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE ministry of Local Government has ordered some local authorities who did not attend the second phase of heritage based training under the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology to attend the second phase. This comes as in August some councillors attended the first phase of ideological training, drawing anger from the opposition….

By Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE’s hopes to be re-admitted into the Commonwealth remains up in the air, with Harare’s application not on the agenda of the organisation’s meeting in Samoa next week. The United Kingdom’s (UK) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Peter Vowels, confirmed yesterday that Zimbabwe was not on the agenda of this year’s Commonwealth Heads…

By Brighton Muronzereyiand Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERS AUTHORITIES say the fire that broke out at the popular Mbare Musika last week destroyed property and goods worth at least US$20 million. This comes as the government has declared the fire outbreak a state of national disaster and plans are underway to assist more than 5 000 traders…

By Nyasha KunyiswaSENIOR STAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynew.co.zw RUSSIA says it is committed to support Zimbabwe in maternal care in an effort to reduce the country’s maternal mortality rate. Speaking during a training of trainers workshop in emergency obstetric and neonatal care held in Harare yesterday, Russian ambassador to Zimbabwe Nikolai Krasilnikov said implementation of the international project…

HEALTH authorities from Hwange district, Matabeleland North, have set up an isolation facility to treat and combat the spread of Mpox at the Victoria Falls City Council clinic. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Hwange district medical officer Fungai Musinami said the facility was well equipped to handle suspected cases of Mpox.“We have engaged the…